Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
One must add Israel to this. And, by extension, Israel’s benefactor: The United States of Impunity.
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 days ago
Another chapter in the saga! Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
It’s another of these clearly illegal things one would think should be fairly easy to solve - even without diplomatic drama - yet no government seems to want to notice?
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
another of these clearly illegal things
They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.
There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.
Pirata@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The chicken or the egg, which came first?
If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.
Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.
Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 days ago
No, it really doesn’t. NK has been totalitarian (practically a monarchy) and militarist since birth, and tyrannical for the most time since. That’s where you need to look when you want to blame someone for people starving there.
Pirata@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I don’t disagree with you.